Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.
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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
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The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody
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I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'
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If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?
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I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.
